Meir Kahane Quotes

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Meir Kahane

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• My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Me
  • Coach

• I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Beginning
  • Feel

• When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • New
  • New York
  • Stock

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Every
  • Orientation

• Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Different
  • Single

• My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Life
  • Music
  • Anxiety

• I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Style
  • Identity

• I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Family
  • Past

• There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Economy
  • Recovery
  • Taxes

• Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • London
  • Jews

• It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I owe the public nothing.

  

  J. P. Morgan

• Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Half
  • Love You
  • Know Yourself

• When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Hearts

• Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

  

  Bob Riley
  • Future
  • Education

• There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Soul
  • Moon
  • Loneliness

• Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

  

  Meir Kahane